Things that time forgot.

[Mary Chambers]

Children's (girls'?) liberty bodices.

I wore them in junior school. Very comfortable, in fact.

Extract of malt, immortalised by AA Milne.

Scott's Emulsion, which I think contained cod liver oil.

[clive heath]

Extract of Malt....still available in health food shops and just as tasty but not quite as moorish as Condensed Milk

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Real billions - 1,000,000,000,000.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A wage packet, on a Friday, in those crinkly semi- transparent envelopes.

Brown with a transparent "window" so that you could count your money before opening them, and return to the paymaster unopened if anything was amiss.


(A contrast with today when I used "Contactless" for the very first time! I feel [rather pathetically] inordinately pleased with myself!)

[Mary Chambers]

Other childhood delights that the modern child is spared include:

Short trousers in all weathers.

There are still prep schools that insist on that, if you pay enough money.

[mercia]

Look and Learn

ah yes, that's what my weekly pocket-money went on. Loved it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Black Bob

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Black Bob

Florins!

[Serial_Apologist]

Farex!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Roy of the Rovers
The Eagle
Swift
Robin
Magnetic football
Meccano

[vinteuil]

'The Children's Newspaper'

[ ... copies at the dentist's : as children we thought it deadly dull. ]

'The Illustrated London News'

[french frank]

Florins!

And threepenny-bits.

[P. G. Tipps]

Fitba's wee barras.

[Bryn]

And threepenny-bits.

Ah yes. A dozen farthings, no less.

[doversoul1]

'The Illustrated London News'

Book illustrations such as by Ardizzone. Do they still exist? Even in children’s books, illustrations seem to be mostly cartoons.